The default system character encoding of the base image should be UTF-8

[vlahoda]

The default system character encoding of the base image should be UTF-8, IMO.

The locale command in bitnami containers output:
LANG=
LANGUAGE=
LC_CTYPE="POSIX"
LC_NUMERIC="POSIX"
LC_TIME="POSIX"
LC_COLLATE="POSIX"
LC_MONETARY="POSIX"
LC_MESSAGES="POSIX"
LC_PAPER="POSIX"
LC_NAME="POSIX"
LC_ADDRESS="POSIX"
LC_TELEPHONE="POSIX"
LC_MEASUREMENT="POSIX"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="POSIX"
LC_ALL=

while most common expected settings are:

LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=en_US:en
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8

I believe that the latter is the expected behaviour.

[dgomezleon]

Hi @vlahoda ,

Thanks for your feedback. I have created an internal task to review it.

[24mu13]

A possible workaround for my Dockerfile since it's on-hold for a while now:

FROM bitnami/minideb:bookworm 

RUN install_packages bash locales git ca-certificates jq curl gnupg wget unzip
RUN sed -i -e 's/# en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8/' /etc/locale.gen && \
    dpkg-reconfigure --frontend=noninteractive locales && \
    update-locale LANG=en_US.UTF-8
ENV LANG en_US.UTF-8

# ...

[james-w]

The base debian image says this:

Given that it is a faithful "minbase" install of Debian, this image only includes the C, C.UTF-8, and POSIX locales by default. For most uses requiring a UTF-8 locale, C.UTF-8 is likely sufficient (-e LANG=C.UTF-8 or ENV LANG C.UTF-8).

Have you tried with setting LANG=C.UTF-8 environment variable with minideb?

[vlahoda]

The base debian image says this:

Given that it is a faithful "minbase" install of Debian, this image only includes the C, C.UTF-8, and POSIX locales by default. For most uses requiring a UTF-8 locale, C.UTF-8 is likely sufficient (-e LANG=C.UTF-8 or ENV LANG C.UTF-8).

Have you tried with setting LANG=C.UTF-8 environment variable with minideb?

If I remember correctly, I've used LANG=en_US.UTF-8. I suppose C.UTF-8 would work as well - my point was that the LANG variable should be set by default.